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Former external affairs ninister and suspended Congress party leader Natwar Singh has said he will soon write a book to reveal why the Indian government acted on the Volcker report on Iraqi oil-for-food controversy.
"No government in the world except the Indian government took any notice of the report. Indian government was the only one to have taken notice and acted on the unclear report," Singh told BBC Hindi in an interview.
"Now the question is why the Indian government decided to act on a report, which was completely trashed in other parts of the world. This I would reveal in my new book, which I am going to write soon," he said.
"Paul Volcker himself said he made changes in the report to save United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan from embarrassment. Therefore, it is clear that the report was doctored," he added.
"My name or that of my party did not figure in the first four reports of Volcker. My name was added as late as February 2005 in the fifth report, that too as a mis-spelt name -- Natora Singh," the Former external affairs minister said.
He said: "Our missions in the United States did not bother to find out about the report and the names neither was I informed about this when I visited that country in April, 2005, nor in July same year when I was there with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh."
"Had we been informed, we would have there and then got this anomaly removed," Natwar said.
Asked what his future political plans are, the former minister said: "First of all, I am going to reply to the show cause notice given to me by my party. I am not going to blame anyone